37/16
Diane Kruger replaced Léa Seydoux in the role
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widow, builds a device to communicate with the dead while in a funeral shroud. Mentioned on the Film Junk Podcast: Episode 961: Brutal Nature + TIFF 2024 (2024).
The critiques of technological advancement, artificial intelligence, privacy and spyware, (experimental) surgery and healthcare, the Chinese, capitalism, the rich, modern society, etc
It’s not a terrible film in its essence, the problem is that it’s built on so many ideas and themes that it’s hard not to get lost in the chaos. etc.
The poor writing doesn’t help either, the dialogue can be either stupid or just expository, the story jumps sloppily between characters and plot lines, and I know (or at least I think) that some of the dialogue is self-conscious and doesn’t take itself seriously, which makes it feel trite
etc. etc….
, ridiculous (the audience laughed at times) and genuinely funny
You could also consider this a “so bad it’s good” movie, at least that’s how I see it, I certainly didn’t hate it.